The Heart of a Woman
The Life and Music of Florence B. Price
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About This Book
Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music
The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works.
Price's twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Introduction
- Part I: Southern Roots
- Part II : The “Dean” of Negro Composers of the Midwest
- Postscript
- Afterword by Carlene J. Brown
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Discography
- For Further Reading
- Index
- Back Cover